The Fuel of the Sun

Abstract

IN your impression of October 6 Mr. Murphy adds another to the frequent attempts that are still made to galvanise the expiring hypothesis that attributes the solar heat and light to a meteoric bombardment. Many very strong and sufficient objections have been already brought against it, but as Mr. Murphy states that he is “not mathematician enough to form any opinion on the merits of the controversy,” I will add two arguments which to my mind are quite sufficient to annihilate this explanation—both of which may be sufficiently understood without mathematics, and neither of which have I ever seen fairly stated.